quilt market - the booths (part one)

you ready for sensory overload?

Let's go....

Where to start? Quilt Market felt smaller this time, but there was still stuff I completely missed and I still can't figure out how I missed booths by Valori Wells and Jane Sassaman. No clue how that happened. They must have been close together on an aisle that I never walked down. Quilt Market is huge, and so easily distracting, you can easily miss stuff and kick yourself later. I didn't take nearly as many photos as I'd have liked, but I'm still splitting the posts up and spreading them over a few days, because when I came to write this post I realised there were waaaaaay too many photos to just put in one post.

So today we've got the Moda booth



The moda booth is always one I find I'm hanging out in most of all. It helps that I have my friends there and that one of best friends was there for the first time this year.
Lucie Summers' debut at Moda excites me no end, she's seriously one of my actual real life best friends. I love her so much and seeing her boothlet at market made me swell up with pride, I'm tearing up right now thinking about it. Damn soppy cow that I am. Watch this space for her, and if you like what she does go and pester your local quilt shop and ask them to stock Summersville. Do the same with all of the fabrics you like the look of, pester and I mean really pester. If you don't ask you don't get. Don't rely on your LQS to stock fabrics you like - you need to push for them. You also can't rely on the local fabric reps to show your LQS owners everything that comes out, quite often a rep will show what they think the LQS wants and the seriously good stuff can get forgotten. I'm really wanting Ellen's fabrics to be a huge hit too - because the scale on these is fantastic. There wasn't any of this at sample spree, and I'm sad about that but as soon as I get some (I've begged) I'll show and share. Physically share and visually. That's a promise, I have a plan, I'll talk about that when I get my hands on the fabrics though. Same with Lu's fabrics. I think we'll have some fun. You'll have some fun. All of us. But more on that later...



Moda had a heap of good stuff.

Salt Air by Cosmo Cricket (I didn't get any at spree either, and now I'm annoyed with myself)...



California Girl by Fig Tree was a fresher blend of colours than usual. Slightly brighter, incredibly pretty....



Jenn Ski's line, ten little things, looks like it's going to be a huge hit if pre-sales are anything to go by. I'm not as keen on this, it's not my favourite but I can see how it'll appeal, it's a really strong line for boys and the co-ordinates would work well for a man too...



Rouenneries Deux from french General. I love French General. Love love love *sigh* did I mention I love this line? I'm so happy it's been re-printed, with a little twist...



Malka Dubrawsky's first line, a stitch in color - looks really good, I'm tempted to say as good as her hand printed fabrics especially as it's priced more agreeably to the pocket...




Aneela's new line, a walk in the woods, doesn't fail to delight. It's my favourite of hers so far. Foxes, mushrooms, some lovely co-ordinates too. She's returned to the soft palette of sherbet pips, which is always a winner in my book.



Kate Spain - always a sure fire winner, her new line is called good fortune. Isn't that quilt cool? (by the way - over on the Fat Quarterly blog there's a giveaway of 5 small 2.5" charm packs of terrain right now)...



The sweet, sweet, sweetwater gals (well, only one gal here in the pic, very busy on her iPad)...



Obviously Moda had heaps more stuff, this is just a drop in the ocean and my picks. I also heard that they're going to produce extra wide backing fabrics in polka dots. I'm going to take part credit for that idea - I emailed Lissa a while back and asked a simple 'why don't you make cool backings, like polka dots?' I don't know about you but I am not a huge fan of pieced quilt backs (or rather, I'm not a fan of piecing backs - I'm all done when I've finished with the front, I can't be doing with making a second quilt top, I'm a little bit a lot lazy where backs are concerned. I also like to see the quilting on a single piece of fabric. It makes me smile), and I have a tendency to make pretty big quilts, usually they're twin bed sized or larger. I often end up buying 8 or 9 yards of backing fabric, and still need to piece a centre seam. Or I buy bed sheets, but they're not always big enough so I have to piece bits on to them. Polka dotty backing fabrics will make my life so much closer to perfect. Seriously, I'm not even lying when I say this. It will actually make my life closer to perfect. When Lissa told me I wanted to squeeze her til she burst.

Finally...to answer the questions posted by Flying Blind on a Rocket Cycle and Archie the Wonder Dog - consider Aneela well hugged and also informed of your fanship. That girl will get a fat head soon if she's not careful.

And for Chelsea....here I am hanging with Tula (I stalked her well for you, you'd have been proud of me).

Are we ready to move on? Tomorrow we have more booth goodness. I don't even think I'll have finished after that.
Keep watching, there's a giveaway coming. I'm not above bribes to keep you visiting.